{"id":237459,"date":"2026-05-19T23:52:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237459\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T23:52:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:52:38","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-dancehall-and-reggae-legend-shaggy-holds-album-release-signing-in-east-flatbush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237459\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Dancehall And Reggae Legend Shaggy Holds Album Release Signing In East Flatbush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It was a special day in Brooklyn on Tuesday, as reggae icon Shaggy made an appearance to celebrate the release of his new album.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Fans of Shaggy traveled from near and far to crowd around him in awe \u2013 as they took pictures, held conversations and listened to the latest sounds from his new album, &#8220;Lottery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">While he never stops repping his home Jamaica, his Brooklyn connections run deep, making the event all the more special.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cBrooklyn holds a strong place in my heart because this is really where I perfected my craft,\u201d said Shaggy. \u201cSo it\u00a0 feels really nostalgic in a way, coming back.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">To top it off, the Brooklyn Borough President has officially declared May 19 as &#8220;Shaggy Day&#8221; in Brooklyn. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a special day in Brooklyn on Tuesday, as reggae icon Shaggy made an appearance to celebrate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-237459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}